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Interesting, thanks for posting. So, question, it's not totally clear to me, would this be Amtrak California running the trains or perhaps Caltrain?

I can't find a reference right now, but was there, at one time, another causeway or bridge for rail across the bay between Tampa & St. Pete? Or was that road/street bridge that was abandoned (what I remember from being told when I visited)? (edit) Interestingly, I found a reference to a...

Fascinating - Kolkata looks so intriguing. Must get off my duff and go.

Love that the background image is still single tracked in Tim's link...

Usually pulled at an endpoint (some, I think, can be disassembled). Off topic, but they developed a TBM that could do rectangular sections for a project in Hong Kong recently.

This is pretty cool - though I will say it's very "rainbow fleet" in some ways.

Seems to me this is just a one time deadhead. If there are chronic and consistent sell-outs between Chicago and Milwaukee, maybe it's time to really fly between them and get Metra to extend all the way.

This is actually a great suggestion for a multi-use corridor.

Oh, it was a USC bus....

Yay! At last and woo-hoo!

Metra (and even the CTA) cover most of the park & ride needs of the Chicago area.

Corfam!

88 minutes is a huge time savings!

In the article West Point posted it mentions making decisions about new station locations - that, along with land procurement, design, bidding and construction of said stations will take a couple years at least.

LOL'ing at "the longest sauna in Sweden" comment, which, btw, is apparently absent in the Swedish version (will check more later on that).